Monthly Archives: May 2006

Velorickshaw

Posted on May 17, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Eleven velorickshaws* currently operate in Moscow, tooling around on Tverskoy Boulevard, Tverskaya Street, and in the area near the All-Union Exhibition Center (they haven’t renamed that yet?**). You can’t tell the driver where to take you—for now, at least, the velorickshaws travel along … Continue reading →

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Futility

Posted on May 17, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Robert Scheer writes: “These days, even when George W. Bush is right, he’s wrong.” In his analysis of Bush’s proposals for dealing with illegal immigration, Scheer is quite even-handed—one might almost say kind. Not the usual image of the “hateful left” painted … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric

Posted on May 17, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Well, it least someone is trying to remove the chill from the air. In an interview with the London Times, Putin’s chief of staff said: The problems that have been highlighted recently in the media and political circles have been … Continue reading →

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Defense

Posted on May 16, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Big headline today in Izvestia: Буш отправляет войска охранять южную границу США That is, “Bush sends troops to guard southern border of US.” Which is accurate (I even watched some of the address on “immigration reform” last night, out of … Continue reading →

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Sacked

Posted on May 14, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Two days after declaring the elimination of corruption one of his government’s highest priorities, Russian president Vladimir Putin fired ten high-ranking officials. He said the dismissals were not timed to coincide with his state-of-the-nation address, although he said he knew … Continue reading →

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Blogology

Posted on May 12, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

I have this funny urge to do a taxonomy of blogs. Some of the distinguishing characteristics would be: Single author | multiple authors Multiple posts per day | multiple days between posts Blogger does | does not already have an … Continue reading →

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Agenda

Posted on May 11, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Yesterday Vladimir Putin delivered his yearly address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation—the Russian equivalent of the American president’s “state of the union” address. His basic themes were (in order of delivery): The need to eliminate corruption and … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 10, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t those who are sick of this joke. (Google says there are about 452,00010 instances of it on the web.)

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Indescribable

Posted on May 9, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

I had an Inca Kola today at El Pollo Rico. Man, is that stuff sweet! Tastes sort of like bubblegum, which made me wonder: what the heck is bubblegum flavor? I mean, it must be built out of something—some well-defined … Continue reading →

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Preacherman

Posted on May 8, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Our beloved vice president has journeyed to Vilnius in the former Soviet Union to criticize the democracy being run by the current Kremlin-dwellers. The Russians, naturally, found him “completely incomprehensible.” (Welcome to the club, друзья.) Cheney also accused the Russian government … Continue reading →

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